Hi Dale Smith; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:47:56 -0600, you wrote: > > I have read about this in one of the HOWTO's. This is a real pain for me > because my NT partition is ntfs, and I can't use linux tools to copy the boot > sector.
I'm using the same setup, that is I'm booting linux off of the NT boot loader or whatever M$ calls that thing. I don't understand why do you feel that the fact your NT partition is ntfs would stop you from using a floppy and copy over the boot sector of your linux partition as a msdos file into the NT partition ... I have a ntfs partition and it worked OK. > > Is there some way to make a chain loader of some kind? This would be a boot > sector that the NT boot loader uses. It would boot whatever partition it > points to. Then, whenever you re-compile a kernel, running lilo would update > the linux partition boot sector. You would never have to touch the NT "chain" > boot sector again, unless you are changing drives. Am I making any sense? That is exactly what the method you are questioning would do, *except* you will have to copy over the linux partition bootsector file into the NT partition every time you re-run LILO (please someone correct me if I'm wrong here). So , running LILO will not update your file on the NT partition. But how many times a year are you planning on running LILO? Three, maybe four times is my max, and I don't mind using floppy for that. Only my two cents... regards, damir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
